Arts Calendar: 05/01/08

Carrboro

The ArtsCenter
Center Gallery: Community Photography Contest

East End Gallery
ELEMENTS, the fifth annual Community Art Project Through May 28

The Beehive Salon
Sincerely Yours—works depicting life in Chapel Hill by Washington Capps

Caffe Driade
Bridget Walsh—acrylic paintings

Carrboro Century Center
ELEMENTS—the fifth annual Community Art Project Through May 28

Carrboro Town Hall
ELEMENTS—the fifth annual Community Art Project Through May 28

Clay Centre Gallery
New works by the gallery’s resident potter

DeWitt Law
Call for details

Fleet Feet Gallery
Seascape Poetics—paintings exploring the interactions between light, sky, water and land by Carolyn B. Levy

NC Crafts Gallery
Art Nouveau ceramic tiles by Raleigh artist Marina Bosetti, reception during Artwalk.

Nested
Call for details

Open Eye Café
ELEMENTS—the fifth annual Community Art Project Through May 28

Panzanella
Local Farms/Local Art—an art exhibit celebrating the 13th Annual Piedmont Farm Tour Through Jun 1

Scooters Incorporated
Photographs by Caryl Feldacker Through May

Weaver Street Realty
Call for details

Wootini
Cal for details

Chapel Hill

Ackland Art Museum
New Currents in Contemporary Arts: UNC-Chapel Hill Master of Fine Arts Thesis Through May 11
Contemporary Drawings from the Ackland Collection Through Aug 17
The Art of Love May 9-Sep 7

Animation and Fine Art
OP-TiCaL aRt—lithographs and serigraphs by Victor Vasarely & Yaacov Agam May 9-Jun 12

Community Church of Chapel Hill
The Face of the Earth—watercolor mixed media by Nerys Levy May 4-Jun 29

FedEx Global Education Center
Judith Earnst—Expressions of life, love and faith through paintings and pottery Through May 30

Turning Point Gallery
Mixed media on canvas and bronze sculptures by Maeve Harris and Wayne Salge

Southern Village

Bagwell, Holt, Smith, Tillman & Jones, PA
The Color in No Color—paintings by Amy White Through May

Bloom
Flowers and abstracts by Marcia DiMartino Through May

Hillsborough

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts
A Walk in the Woods—new work by Pat Lloyd and Jude Lobe Through May 24

Pittsboro

Chatham County Arts Council
Call for details

Fusion Art and Fine Craft Gallery
Recycled Art—works by Michele Bonds Through May

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This weekend, if you see a lot of long-lost locals, people who you used to see out and about decades ago but who long since headed for other parts or maybe just don’t get out as much, you can blame these mugs for drawing them out.
The Pressure Boys ruled local music in the late ‘80s […]

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Welcome to the New Dark Age II.
In another in the recent series of reunion gigs, Polvo is working out some new and old material for a Cradle show on May 10, some Eurofestival action and a mini-tour.
They called it quits 10 years ago. For this tour, veterans Dave Brylawski, Ash Bowie and Steve Popson are […]

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The ArtsCenter
The Wilders (5/2) Children’s music by Justin Roberts, Chris Duarte w/ Hooverville (5/3) Red Stick Ramblers (5/17) Holly Near w/ emma’s revolution (5/18) Lise Uyanik & The Mobile City Band w/ The South Wing Band (5/24) The Biscuit Burners (5/30) David Dyer & The Crooked Smile (5/31)

Cat’s Cradle
The Pressure Boys, Sneaker, […]

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This year’s Carrboro Day poetry reading includes a new feature — the first annual readings by the winners of the town’s Youth Poetry Contest. Sponsored by Carrboro Recreation & Parks and coordinated by Carrboro’s Poet Laureate Neal McTighe, the contest had more than 50 entries from students in elementary, middle and high school.
The winners will […]

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Deep Dish Theater
The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Tony Lea. A lovely and often riotous comedy about a young Brazilian woman and the people whose house she tends $12-$16; May 1-24

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McIntyre’s Fine Books
May 2, 2pm—Writing workshop with Wendy Call, co-editor of Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide From The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.
May 3, 11am—Joe Camp, creator of the canine superstar Benji, discusses the lessons he and his wife learned while reasearching Camp’s book Soul of a Horse.
May 4, 2pm—Diana Kennedy discusses […]

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